art theft 
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
9/16/2022
New York Museums to Disclose Provenance of Pieces Looted by Nazis
The Metropolitan Museum has currently identified 53 works as seized or sold under duress by Nazis. It is unclear how many more it will identify in response to a new state law requiring the display of those pieces to disclose the conditions of acquisition.
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SOURCE: Forward
1/17/2022
Will SCOTUS Uphold Claim of Heirs for Return of Pissarro Painting Stolen by Nazis?
Lower courts have agreed with the Spanish government that US courts are not empowered to adjudicate claims of looted art; if the Supreme Court agrees it could chill further attempts to use American law to return artworks stolen from Europe's Jews by the Nazis.
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12/12/2021
Acquiring Eyes: The Unlikely Cross-Cultural Partnership Behind the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
by Charles Dellheim
The world of American art collecting was transformed by the unlikely partnership of the Boston Brahmin Isabella Stewart Gardner and the ambitious Russian Jewish immigrant Bernhard Berenson.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/17/2021
How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief
Historian Jonathan Petropoulous forged a relationship with Bruno Lohse, the art agent of Hermann Göring. That relationship proved ethically dubious when the professor did paid contract work for heirs of a German Jewish family to trace a stolen painting and the trail led to a foundation owned by Lohse.
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